My good friend Brian Tunney wrote an interesting feature on his personal site about Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s outspoken past on Skateboarding, BMX and Inline Skating.

Years ago I got a ticket for riding my bike in a “posted no bicycling area” in Long Beach, California. For some reason said ticket qualified as a traffic ticket, and was posted on my driving record causing my insurance to increase. While I think her policies are likely more directed toward the destruction of public property, I still don’t agree with it. Does she ticket the kids playing softball in the neighborhood? They break windows. Kids playing street hockey? They hit cars with their puck/balls all the time. But skateboarders/BMXers are hooligans, right? The choice is yours. On the other hand, if this means they are going to start handing out tickets to rollerbladers on the beach, maybe I need to rethink my position.

The images above were part of the “No” Photo Series on jaredsouney.com in 1999.